Conclusion vs Elenchus - What's the difference?
conclusion | elenchus |
The end, finish, close or last part of something.
* Prescott
The outcome or result of a process or act.
A decision reached after careful thought.
* Shakespeare
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(logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
* Addison
(obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
* Francis Bacon
(legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
(legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
(rhetoric) A technique of argument associated with wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.
* 1991 , Thomas c. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, “Socrates’ Elenctic Mission”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy , Volume IX (1991), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-823990-1, page 131–132:
As nouns the difference between conclusion and elenchus
is that conclusion is while elenchus is (rhetoric) a technique of argument associated with wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.conclusion
English
(wikipedia conclusion)Noun
(en noun)- A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
- And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
- The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions' are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound ' conclusions . Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you geth
- He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
- We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
- (Wharton)
Antonyms
* (end) beginning, initiation, startCoordinate terms
* (in logic) premiseelenchus
English
Noun
(-)- The elenchus begins when an interlocutor makes some moral claim that Socrates wishes to examine. The argument then proceeds from premisses that express certain of the interlocutor’s other beliefs to a conclusion that contradicts the original moral claim under scrutiny.